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From: spel@hippo.ru.ac.za (Dr. E.W. Lisse)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.text.tex
Subject: sorter for large ascii files for msdos
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Date: 12 Apr 91 15:27:16 GMT
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Hi,

I need a SORT program that can handle 20000 lines ascii and is
reasonably fast. I do not have ftp access nor can I receive
comp.ibm.binary or what it is called as we have a phone link to the us
and it has too much traffic for the finance section :-)-O

I used Timo Salmi's TSCHEK recently and it is very nice. I read in the
commands from LATEX.TEX deleted the internal commands (\??@????) and
added them to the word list. Unfortunately I have to resort to very ugly
tricks to get the stuff sorted fine. (like reading it into data bases
and stuff :-)-O)

my sorter does unfortunately sort like this

things
thing

instead of

thing
things

It is however quite fast. 56 seconds for sortinmg through 13218 records
(127288Bytes) 232618 comparisons and at least half of the time
reading/writing to/from the 20ms hard disk.

SO, please get me the host and subdirectory and name of the ultimate
sorter or email me the offer of emailing it to me. Sources would of
course be best (so I learn some :-)-O) Tube-c and tube-pascal, but the
binaries do it as well.

regards, el

ps: followup can be directed to these newsgroups, as I DO read them
:-)-O


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Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse       (spel@hippo.ru.ac.ZA)
Katatura State Hospital     (formerly extel@quagga.ru.ac.za)
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Windhoek, Namibia           (no FTP yet. [This is Africa :-)-O])